Maggie Smith

He's dying of AIDS, but he is keeping that under wraps.

Olivia Colman is a doctor that is providing him care, but with a sort of gruff Maggie Smith bedside manner.

He doesn't think

he should do this because she wants to keep him alive.

Dan has joined us previously for Chris O'Dowd, Tim Roth, Willem Dafoe, David Spade.

Maggie Smith, William Atherton, Goldie Hawn, and Robert Forster.

And today he becomes the first nine-time guest Munson, and I will say that is about as random of a smattering of good and fucking terrible actors that one guest could possibly join for.

You have that going for you.

Early Quentin Tarantino movie when he was young in his career, scraping up all them actors together would be my vote.

The only one that doesn't make sense is David Spade.

I could see the other seven being in a picture together, but Spade would not be in a movie with Maggie Smith, Goldie Hawn, and Willem Dafoe.

There's not a chance in the world.

And 16,000 paintings were stolen from Jewish Parisians during the war by the Nazis.

And we know this number because a low-level curator at the Jeu de Pomme named Rose Velland, who was just a tiny quiet little mouse of a woman she was not about to take this art theft sitting down look at your phone if you'd like to see her she was trim with dark eyes and hair that was usually in a low bun she wore round glasses and no makeup and she looked kind of stern her celebrity look-alike is maggie smith in the prime of miss jean brody So as the Germans were grabbing art from families in Paris, she kept a little handwritten diary where she recorded every detail, what the painting was, who it was by, who owned it, and where it went.

And the fun thing was that Rose was fluent in German, but she was such a smart little mouse that she never told the Germans who took over her museum.

So they would chat freely in front of her about which painting had been stolen from which Jewish family and which high-ranking Nazi planned to hang it over his toilet.

It might

be like a Maggie Smith character.

It sounds like that.

In the day center I used to run before the Irish one, it was a mixed one.

... you're not just casting a role, you are purchasing theatrical gravitas.

Which is exactly what the original films did, right? They anchored the crazy CGI and the child actors with British acting royalty like Richard Harris and Maggie Smith.

Precisely.

But applying that logic to a modern HBO television series requires a slightly different alchemy.

So, no, that's pretty wonderful.

But I had met Julian years ago at an HBO party when Downton was nominated, and The Good Wife was nominated, and of course, I knew I'd lose to Maggie Smith, but I was honored to be in the same category.

But at the party, I had the temerity to go up to Julian and say, I hear that you are someday considering doing an American Downton about the Gilded Age, and I talked to him about the fact that my late husband was, in fact, he was of a Gilded Age family, that his aunt was a So

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